On Wednesday 14 June 2006 00:32, Kyla Tornheim wrote:
> I find Gaiman often far too dark for me--I do like Neverwhere, but I
> wish I'd written down the quotes from American Gods that really
> resonated with me, because I never want to read it again.
Seconded. Some of the images in American Gods were beautiful, and it was
full of the mythical-America stuff that I watch fifties American movies
for, but the whole thing was far too dark and somehow sordid. (Also
spoiled, for me, by the revelation at the end [spoiler]
that in fact everybody had been on the same side all along, and it
wasn't a side I'd have thought of as 'good'. The only really good guys
in it were minor characters, notably Sam and her sister.
Irina
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Beghinnen can ick, volherden will' ick, volbringhen sal ick.
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